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From: kjetilho@ifi.uio.no (Kjetil Torgrim Homme)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP on FreeBSD???
Date: 21 Jun 1994 00:20:38 GMT
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In-reply-to: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu's message of 20 Jun 1994 22:01:20 GMT

++--- Max Klochkov:
|| I solved this problem by linking /bin/sh to /usr/local/bin/bash
||
+--- Nate Williams:
| This is in general 'A Bad Thing' to do. This really screws up the
| default build tools, and will bite you if you try to build the world
| with the BSD make tools.
| 
| I suggest running the Configure like 'bash Configure' instead of
| screwing up the default sh.
| 
| Hopefully sh(1) will be better when we release a 4.4 based FreeBSD.

With all due respect, I suggest that you clean up your "default build
tools" so that they work with bash instead of tying your users to a
non-standard Bourne shell.

bash works fine as /bin/sh in Linux. The only problem I'm aware of is
a bug in Cnews (redirecting before a sub-shell).


Kjetil T.